Social news website Reddit appears to be conducting a social experiment. Reddit administrators unleashed The Button on the hugely-successful online community on April Fool's Day. Article continues ...

If you were placed in a room with a button and told not to press it, could you fight the temptation? A current Reddit thread is testing its users resolve to do just this by placing a clickable button ...

The Reddit April Fool’s prank that evolved into an Internet legacy has mysteriously ended. After driving wedges between factions of Button pushers and non-pushers, Internet tribes formed around the ...

Internet monster Reddit came up with a perfect April's Fools Day project to torment its users. "The button", as it's called, is a simple button with a timer counting down from 60 seconds. Every time a ...

On April Fools' Day this year, a mysterious button popped up on Reddit, inviting members of the social media sharing site to press it. The Button is little more than a grey box with a timer next to it ...

Perhaps it is easier to explain The Button by explaining what it is not. The Button is not a thing that makes sense, nor is it a thing with any particular objective or rule set. It is not a game, and ...

Rather than do something big and elaborate for April Fools' Day, Reddit did something altogether more insidious for its annual prank: The Button, a social experiment that calls for every one of the ...

On April 1, a mysterious button appeared that sent users of the popular online community into a spin. A simple timer appeared and counted down from 60 seconds with a button. Users could press it to ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Reddit staff announced the appearance of the button at 9AM ET on April Fool’s Day. Users could head to the ...

I’ve never been so torn about whether or not to push a button. Like many websites, Reddit loves a good April Fools’ Day prank, but this year it’s taken a turn for the surreal. On Wednesday morning, ...

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